Greenland Answer

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B: Peter Freuchen, a Danish Jew, was a medical school dropout who became a whaler and explorer (surely to the chagrin of his Jewish parents). During his travels, Freuchen lived with various Eskimo communities, where he learned more about hunting, fishing, and surviving in the difficult weather and terrain of Greenland. He also became fluent in various Eskimo languages, and as a result of his knowledge of the Eskimo peoples, he was appointed by the Danish government to be the resident governor of the Thule Colony on Greenland in 1913.

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